sloth

English

Wikipedia

A sloth (2)

Alternative forms

• sloath, slowth

Etymology

From Middle English slouthe, slewthe, from Old English slǣwþ (“sloth, indolence, laziness, inertness, torpor”), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþō (“slowness, lateness”), equivalent to slow +‎ -th. Cognate with Scots sleuth (“sloth, slowness”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /sləʊθ/, /slɒθ/
• (US) IPA: /slɔθ/, /slɑθ/, /sloʊθ/, X-SAMPA: /slOT/, /slAT/, /sloUT/
• Rhymes: -əʊθ

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

sloth (countable and uncountable; plural sloths)

1. (uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset.
2. (countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
3. (rare) A collective term for a group of bears.

Usage notes

Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins (see Wikipedia article on the seven deadly sins for more details).

Derived terms

• forsloth

Hyponyms

• (animal): two-toed sloth

Related terms

• slowth

Translations

laziness

• Arabic: كَسَل (ar) (kasal) m
• Catalan: accídia (ca) f, peresa (ca) f, mandra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 懶惰 (cmn), 懒惰 (cmn) (lǎnduò)

• Czech: lenost (cs) f
• Dutch: luiheid (nl) f
• Estonian: laiskus (et)
• Finnish: laiskuus (fi)
• French: paresse (fr) f
• German: Trägheit (de) f, Faulheit (de) f
• Greek: νωθρότητα (el) (nothrótita) f
• Hungarian: lustaság (hu), tunyaság (hu), restség (hu), henyeség (hu)
• Icelandic: leti (is) f, ómennska (is) f, dugleysi (is) n, n
• Italian: pigrizia f, (deadly sin) accidia f

• Japanese: 怠惰 (ja) (たいだ, taida)
• Khmer: កម្ជិល (km) (kam jil)
• Polish: lenistwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: preguiça (pt) f
• Romanian: lene (ro) f
• Russian: лень (ru) (lenʹ) f, (deadly sin) леность (ru) (lénostʹ) f
• Scottish Gaelic: a' corra-leisg (gd) f, seothaiche (gd) m, leisge (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лењост (sh) f, лијеност (sh) f

  Roman: lenjost (sh) m, lijenost (sh) m

• Slovene: lenoba (sl) f
• Spanish: pereza (es) f
• Swedish: lättja (sv) c, lathet (sv) c
• Volapük: trög (vo)

mammal

• Arabic: كَسْلان (ar) (kaslān) m
• Belarusian: лянівец (be) (ljanívec) m
• Bulgarian: ленивец (bg) (lenívec) m
• Catalan: peresós (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎦᏃᎵ ᏲᎾᎢᏳᏍᏗ (chr) (usganoli yonaiyusdi), ᎤᏂᏍᎦᏃᎵ ᏲᎾᎢᏳᏍᏗ (chr) (unisganoli yonaiyusdi (pl))
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 懶惰 (cmn), 懒惰 (cmn) (lǎnduò)

• Czech: lenochod (cs) m
• Danish: dovendyr (da) n
• Dutch: luiaard (nl) m
• Esperanto: (♂♀) bradipo (eo), (♂) virbradipo (eo), (♀) bradipino (eo), (♂♀) bradipido (eo), (♂) virbradipido (eo), (♀) bradipidino (eo)
• Estonian: laiskloom (et)
• Finnish: laiskiainen (fi)
• French: paresseux (fr) m, aï (fr) m
• German: Faultier (de) n
• Greek: βραδύπους (el) (vradýpous) m
• Hungarian: lajhár (hu)
• Icelandic: letidýr (is) n
• Ido: (♂♀) bradipo (io), (♂) bradipulo (io), (♀) bradipino (io), (♂♀) bradipyuno (io), (♂) bradipyunulo (io), (♀) bradipyunino (io)
• Indonesian: kukang (id)
• Italian: bradipo (it) m

• Japanese: ナマケモノ (ja) (namakemono), 樹懶 (ja) (なまけもの, namakemono)
• Khmer: កម្ជិល (km) (kam jil)
• Korean: 나무늘보 (ko) (namuneulbo)
• Navajo: ndilnaʼii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dovendyr (no) n

  Nynorsk: dovendyr (nn) n

• Polish: leniwiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: bicho-preguiça (pt) m, preguiça (pt) f
• Romanian: leneș (ro) m
• Russian: ленивец (ru) (lenívec) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лењивац (sh) m, љењивац (sh) m, типавац (sh) m

  Roman: lenjivac (sh) m, ljenjivac (sh) m, tipavac (sh) m

• Slovak: leňoch (sk) m
• Slovene: lenivec (sl) m
• Spanish: perezoso (es) m, (Venezuela) pereza (es) f
• Swahili: mvivu-miti (sw), slothu (sw)
• Swedish: sengångare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: лінивець (uk) (linývecʹ) m
• Volapük: (♂♀) bradip (vo), (♂) hibradip (vo), (♀) jibradip (vo), (♂♀ offspring, young) bradipül (vo), (♂ offspring) hibradipül (vo), (♀ offspring) jibradipül (vo), (Megatherium americanum ♂♀) gianagretabradip (vo)

See also

• Wikipedia article on the sloth

Verb

sloth (third-person singular simple present sloths, present participle slothing, simple past and past participle slothed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be idle.

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External links

• sloth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• sloth in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• holts